Ohio Criminal Defense Lawyers

Thirty-one vacant house fires in the last two months have the city of Toledo on edge. So much so that the Mayor announced the reward for valuable information has been boosted to $25,000 in hopes of solving some of the yet-unsolved blazes in the area. Of the six most populous cities in the state, Toledo has had the most arson cases per capita in the past year. [read more...]

A new set of laws in Ohio will work to keep the criminal process more efficient while simultaneously reducing the change of wrongful convictions and eyewitness identifications. While it may take prosecutors and police some time to adjust, the adjustments will be well worth it and are coming at a very good time—when dozens of states have passed similar legislation. [read more...]

Budgets across the nation are tight. States spend exorbitant amounts on locking up their citizens. So much that the United States incarcerates people at the highest rate in the world. But balancing a budget might mean slowing down on the locking up as this report from the Dayton Daily News. [read more...]

In a 5-1 ruling, the Ohio Supreme Court decided that a trained police officer’s visual estimate of a cars speed is sufficient proof to assess a finding of guilty with a speeding ticket. [read more...]

Often when you think of human trafficking you think of big cities and immigrants being conned into servitude. A recent case, crossing state lines from Maryland to small town Ohio, however, proves this isn’t always the case. [read more...]

There was a good editorial in the Journal News about the state legislature’s efforts to reform Ohio’s child pornography laws to account for teen “sexting”. Under existing statutes, a teen possessing a sexually explicit photo of his girlfriend sent to his phone or computer could be charges with felony possession of child pornography and convicted as a sex offender. [read more...]

A nineteen year old Sidney woman was sentenced to 6 months in the Ohio Reformatory for Women after giving police her sister’s name when being investigated on theft charges. According to the Dayton Daily News, the judge said the woman’s actions were a “slap in the face to the criminal justice system.” [read more...]

Called AXON, Autonomous eXtended on-Officer Network, a system of miniature cameras is being tested by a group of Cincinnati police officers with hopes for the cameras going department-wide by this summer. According to USA Today several departments across the country are conducting trials on these cameras from Taser International. [read more...]

An elderly Columbus couple was reportedly scammed by a man posing as a detective. The man and his accomplice entered the home of the couple and possibly made out with an undisclosed amount of money, according to NBC 4. [read more...]

The Ohio State Supreme Court ruled this past week that the police cannot go into the cellular phone of a citizen without a search warrant. In a case that delves into the expectation of privacy meets technology, the court has come through with a decision that works to protect the rights of people. [read more...]